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Twas' the Night Before Residency

By VIPAN NIKORE Patients from all around the world travel to the Cleveland Clinic for their medical care. Often it is the last stop in a chain of hospitals that patients have been admitted to in order to solve a... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 10:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Measurement Question

By VIPAN NIKORE I sat at home with a sense of relief. I had just finished my first month of residency - a grueling Cardiology month with very little sleep or food. I now finally had my first weekend off.... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 8:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Unhealthy Skepticism

By JOHN MOORE There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 4:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

The HIT Parade

By LISA SUENNEN The Cleveland Clinic recently published an annual Top 10 list of what their leadership believes to be the most significant advances in medicine in each of the last five years. In 2007-2008 all of the items on... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 4:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Massachusetts has the best health care in America? Prove It!

By PAUL LEVY A well regarded local hospital administrator last week said, "There is lots of evidence that Massachusetts health care is the best in the country." The context was a discussion in which it was pointed out that health... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Road to Repeal?

By RICHARD REECE, MD Emboldened by their victory in the Midterms, many Republicans are calling for repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). How likely is it that we'll see changes any time soon? Probably not very.... Read...

Published Sat, Nov 13 2010 6:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

Paper Is Good … Pass It On

By ALEX EPSTEIN I nearly dropped my spoon into my fibery breakfast cereal last Sunday, because as I was reading the paper, I noticed a a full page ad that read in part… “It’s Easier to Learn on Paper” Seems... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 13 2010 1:43 PM by The Health Care Blog

Does This ACO Thing Really Mean We Need to be ‘Accountable’?

By VINCE KURATIS Last month The American College of Physicians (ACP) released a well-reasoned and thorough position paper, The Patient-Centered Medical Home Neighbor: The Interface of the Patient-Centered Medical Home with Specialty/Subspecialty Practices...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 5:18 PM by The Health Care Blog

How Hedge Funds Get Inside Information From Doctors About Clinical Trials

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS Last week’s arrest of a French doctor for leaking information about a clinical trial to a hedge fund is disturbing, but the alleged activity is neither new nor particularly rare. I’m going to describe how the... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 4:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Alzheimer's Disease: The $20 Trillion Enemy We Must Not Forget

By LISA SUENNEN In the last several weeks I lost my phone (recovered), my iPod (gone) and even a piece of jewelry (I am pretty sure the cat is guilty). I was at the airport when I couldn’t remember where... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 3:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Suzanne Delbanco on the new Catalyst for Payment Reform

By Matthew Holt Catalyst for Payment Reform is a new organization set up by several huge employers. Its goal is to pay for health care differently, and make sure that those employers run ahead of any Medicare payment reform coming... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 1:02 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy, Employers

Physicians, Nurses and the Coming Transformation of our Health System

By GLENN LAFFEL Last week, we highlighted an unintended consequence of the Affordable Care Act: it will dramatically worsen an already gaping mismatch between the demand for and the supply of physician services in the US. Put simply, there aren’t... Read...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 5:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

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mHealth: Is It a Market?

By JOHN MOORE I've been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been: mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right. Backing up this claim have been the countless... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 4:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

AMA Opens Online News Archive

American Medical News, the award-winning newspaper published by the American Medical Association (AMA), announced today it is offering unrestricted access to its online news archive at amednews.com. The online news archive dates back to January 2000,...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 4:36 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Marketplace

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